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It’s like waking up from a nightmare only to find that you’re still in a nightmare. The GOP is still trying to break health care for some 20 32 million Americans. Why don’t they stop? Please stop! Could the GOP’s Final Push to Kill Obamacare Actually Pass? JUST OUT: Here’s a […]

If we can believe the clues, then the GOP’s determination to rip Obamacare out by the roots has come to naught … unless and until they try again, which we can never count out. We can hope that the clues mean what they appear to mean. Does it mean we […]

Make no mistake. Obamacare has made health care available to 20-plus million folks and works long term if those in charge try to make it work. The exchanges are NOT collapsing. Here’s the latest example, this one from Washington State. One more time… ACA markets have real problems. But they are […]

Sarah Kliff at Vox lays waste to the GOP talking point that they have to do something now because “Obamacare marketplaces are collapsing.” They are not. (BTW, the fact that they may have convinced many of their voters of this lie doesn’t make it true, and the GOP office-holders at […]

Having hidden the details as long as he could, Mitch McConnell has finally revealed his tax cut health care bill. Contrary to the expectations originally set, the bill turns out to be the House’s brutal bill with a few of the edges sanded down (for example, it stretches the phase-out of […]

While we are all absorbed in the dance of the seven veils being done over at the White House WRT Russia and DJT’s contempt for the norms that have held our democracy together for 220+ years, Republican legislators elsewhere in DC are wreaking their own havoc. Today’s illustrations: health care and financial […]

…there is a powerful faction inside the White House, led by the president himself, that is rooting for the American health care system to collapse. The executive branch’s strategy is to persuade the public that the ACA’s meltdown is inevitable and thereby prod recalcitrant Republicans in the legislative branch […]

Devastating. CBO: Under GOP bill, “less healthy people would face extremely high premiums…more difficult for them to buy insurance” pic.twitter.com/RQQhNXpJa7 — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 24, 2017 The CBO released its “score” last night for the latest iteration of the House plan, the one they rushed to pass before the CBO […]

They claim they have the votes to pass it today. (UPDATE: So apparently they’ve actually done it. Shameful and monstrous.) The heart of the bill is the same one that was polling at under 20 percent and failed two months ago: a near-trillion dollar tax cut for wealthy investors, financed […]

JOHN DICKERSON: So tell me what in the bill you’ve been negotiating to get– PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But let me– JOHN DICKERSON: –in that helps your supporters. I’m just trying to get the details of how your people– PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Let me just tell you. JOHN DICKERSON: –will be […]